The Hope pioneer., 1887-07-15
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.


\ $5OO,O0O in gold was received at New York
last week, from Europe.
Armour & Co., of Chicago have invested
$500, 900 in pork packing plant at Omaha
Out of SO cases of Yellow fever, at Key
West, Fla, 81 deaths had occurred on the
18th.
The shipments of fractional silver coin
during the month of June amounted to
s6Ss, ,446.
Earthquake tremors were felt in different
points of lower South Carolina, Sunday
afternoon.
The Michigan Secretary of State esti-
mates the wheat crop of that state at 21,-
OOO, 900 bushels.
Three hundred and fifty money order Off
ces were established July 5. Ninety addi-
tional postal note offices.
The New York City directory was issued
Monday, containing s24,sls names, indica-
ting 100000 population.
At the House of Mercy, New York, a six
teen year-old, committed there, was re-
fused because she was colored.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ending July 2,
was S5O9,ON. The same time last year, S4S7,
SIS.
Nearly 500 Pinkerton and other detectives
will be distributed about the Pennsylvania
coke regions to protect any of the old en-
ployes who return to work
During a church picnic at Susque hanna
Pa, the roof of a hall collapsed Nine per-
and Grif Williams may die.
The Topeka Farmer says that the wheat
crop of the state will not exceed twenty-five
per cent of that harvested three years ago.
Corn, however, promises large crop.
The crop report from the Department of
Agriculture at Washington, shows decline
of Sper cent in the condition of spring wheat
from last month, owing to chinch bugs.
The Salt Lake Tribune declares that the
article in the proposed Mormon state con
stitution pretending to abolish polygamy is
fraud and sham, as it can easily be evaded.
The business failures during the last seven
days number for the United States 1856, for
Canada IS; total, 154; against 1S1 last week
and 179 for the corresponding week of last
year.
The 149th call for Sl9,716, GOO per cent bonds
matured on the 1st, inst. Since then SIS,
$4,000 of the bonds have been redeemed by
the treasury department, leaving S4,2O4, 800
of that call still outstanding.
Walla Walla, Wash, complains to the in
terstate commissioners that the freight per
100 pounds on cotton piece goods from Chi
cago to Walla Walla is s4,70, while to Port
land, Or, $50 miles further, it is only $1.2O
per 100 pounds.
Mr.Powderly, in a speech at Scranton,
Pa, said there was too much indiscrininate
immigration for the good of labor and
every immigrant should be able to show
that he was self supporting for one year be-
fore landing on these shores.
DR.. Henry Carpenter, who was the phys
clan of President Buchanan and Thaddeus
Stevens, died in the house in which he was
born at Lancaster, Pa, on the 9th. He had
attended at the birth of nearly G,OO0 infants.
His ancestors for five generations were
physicians.
At Buffalo, N: Y, the extreme heat of the
past week had the effect of increasing the
death rate to almost double that of the cor
responding week of last year, the deaths
Monday the deaths in New York numbered
2OO and Tuesday they were 2eS.
A terrible and fatal scourge is now raging
on Cockburn Island, Lake Huron The dis
ease broke out last week and from Friday
to Tuesday nine deaths had occurred and
the mortality was seemingly on the increase
The disease is supposed to be diphtheria
There is no doctor on the island, and the in
habitants are fleeing for their lives.
Mr.. J. W. Sanborn secretary of the Mis-
souri, state board of agriculture, makes the
following crop report for June: Wheat,
average condition, 95 .Os; spring wheat, %;
oats, S9.O3; corn, lO5O6; Irish potatoes,
"a .0S; tobacco, S409; cotton, 92; timothy,
ss.o5; apples CLOS; peaches, "a; grapes, ST..
The sloop Mystery, with an excursion
party of 81, was capsized in gale at $50
p. M, Sunday, off Barren island, near New
York, and thirty of the party lost. Those
saved were picked by tug that came to the
rescue. When the gale struck the sloop, it
capsized and all on board were thrown into
the water.
The Utah constitutional convention COM
pleted and adopted its constitution on the
7th. The planks already mentioned regard
ing bigamy and polygamy, representation
for the minority and separation of church
and state, were adopted with others. The
vote of the people will be taken in August.
Only those who have taken the sstest oathn
will vote on the ratification.
At Tonawapda, Pa, on the 7th, Mrs. lisa
belle Lyon, wife of DR.. Randolph Lyon who
murdered Richard Moe on Saturday by
shooting, and afterwards killed himself,
committed suicide by taking strychnine
about 10 O'Clock, her death following shortly
after terrible agony. 1t is thought that
grief and depression drove her to this last
act of tragedy by which three persons
have been murdered.
The statistics of immigration at the port
of New York for the first six months of the
current year show large increase i'll com
parlson with the same portion of last year
The figures are: First six months of lSS6-
l4S,7 first six months 18S7-2I2.655. For
the whole year 1886 there landed 30O,9lS i'm
migrants. II the immigration continues for
the next six months at the increased rate
this year will show gain to nearly 100000
The Signal Service reports that during the
week ending July the weather has been
warmer than usual generally throughout
the Northern states and Oh the Pacific coast,
the average daily excess being about deg
from New England westward to the upper
Mississippi valley and about deg on the
Pacific coast. 1t was cooler than usual
throughout the Southern stat 8, and in the
cotton region the daily average was about
3 deg. below the normal
The payments from the U. s. Treasury on
account OF pensions since the. 1st inst.
amount to nearly sl2,0O0,0OO. The expendi-
lures SO far this month exceed the receipts
by, over $4,000 and the indication is that
this excess will be maintained, if not in
creased, through the month 1t is still
maintained at the treasury department.
that the large expenditures to be made be-
tween now and the first Of September will
reduce req the treasury, surplus to about $780,
OO,OOO by the last named date.
The disaster to the sloop Mystery was
caused by the action of CAPTAIN Handrick